November was a month of intense political activity on the part of the Cuban regime, both inside and outside the Island: Universal Periodic Review at the UN, high-level trips and visits, signing of agreements, business fairs; however, possibly nothing of this marked the daily lives of Cubans more than the sustained growth of acts of violence and the worsening of the quality of life.
At least 23 murders, four of which were classified as femicides, were recorded by the Cubalex monitoring team, plus another 33 acts of violence that include robberies, aggressions, attacks on members of the LGBT+ community y violent assaults, including some with firearms. The issue of insecurity, which escalates month after month, has even reached the official press, not usually inclined to address these topics, which acknowledged in several articles the increase in violence and also hate crimes against women, designated as femicides, to avoid using the term femicides.
This situation goes hand in hand with the continued deterioration of the economy, which, according to official figures, will close in 2023 with a fiscal deficit of 22%, he currency exchange rates which keeps rising in the informal market, just like that of food increasingly scarce, the State fails to deliver the few products in the basic food basket, The crisis continues fuel, the blackouts, the problems with the water supply and the landslides. However, the regime continues to prioritize economic spending in other sectors, such as the opening of hotels or the importation of vehicles Despite the depressed state of the tourism sector, the acquisition of missile launchers Belarusians with a range that allows them to reach the territory of the United States, the mobilizations in provinces for marches “"in support for Palestine”"or the trips of the designated president Díaz-Canel" with his family to official events at an expensive chartered plane.
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